PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
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*41<br />
MIDDLE MOCHICA VESSEL<br />
Ca. A. D. 200-500<br />
The vessel with modeled seated female fi gure<br />
surmounted on the round bottle with head tilted<br />
downward and holding her right arm across her<br />
chest and balancing two bowls with corn kernels<br />
(?) on her left arm, a painted cloth before her with<br />
light and dark corn kernels, with a seated female<br />
fi gure on the right, possibly a servant, and the left<br />
side decorated with fi ve corn cobs of alternating<br />
colors, painted in cream, brown and reddish<br />
brown.<br />
Height 26 cm<br />
Provenance<br />
Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949<br />
Literature<br />
Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,<br />
Leipzig, 1972, pl. 135<br />
Istvan Racz, Perun Taide, Helsinki, 1975, pl. 31<br />
Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America,<br />
1974, pl. 299<br />
This scene might depict a display of off erings or<br />
form part of a planting rite.<br />
€ 2 500 – 4 500